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Problem fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama /

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1107028949

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9781107028944

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Problem fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Tom MacFaul

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, UK :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012, ©2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 259 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Staying fathers in early Elizabethan drama: Gorboduc to The Spanish Tragedy; 3. Identification and impasse in drama of the 1590s: Henry VI to Hamlet; 4. Limiting the father in the 1600s: the wake of Hamlet and King Lear; 5. After The Tempest; Conclusion

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"Fathers are central to the drama of Shakespeare's time: they are revered, even sacred, yet they are also flawed human beings who feature as obstacles in plays of all genres. In Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Tom MacFaul examines how fathers are paradoxical and almost anomalous characters on the English Renaissance stage. Starting as figures of confident authority in early Elizabethan drama, their scope for action becomes gradually more restricted, until by late Jacobean drama they have accepted the limitations of their power. MacFaul argues that this process points towards a crisis of patriarchal authority in wider contemporary culture. While Shakespeare's plays provide a key insight into these shifts, this book explores the dramatic culture of the period more widely to present the ways in which Shakespeare's work differed from that of his contemporaries while both sharing and informing their artistic and ideological preoccupations"--

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Characters-- Fathers

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation

English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism

Fathers in literature

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Book number

MacFaul, Tom

Date of Transaction

20121208113657.0

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